ARTICLES ABOUT LAND ACQUISITION ACT BY DATE - PAGE 5

NEW DELHI: Accusing the Modi government of antipathy towards farmers, Social activist Anna Hazare today launched a two-day agitation against the controversial land acquisition ordinance here, coinciding with the commencement of the Budget session of Parliament. 77-year-old Hazare was joined by hundreds of supporters and Narmada Bachao movement activist Medha Patekar at Jantar Mantar and the activist said he will take the movement against the ordinance to each and every district of the country.

MUMBAI: Veteran social activist Anna Hazare and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will meet in Delhi tonight in the backdrop of the agitation against the Land ordinance. The meeting will take place at the New Maharashtra Sadan in Delhi, Hazare's aide Dutta Awari told PTI. The government is bringing a new bill to replace the Land Ordinance amid stiff opposition from non-NDA parties in Parliament and outside. The Land Acquisition Act, 2013 stipulates mandatory consent of at least 70 per cent of land owners for acquiring land for Public Private Partnership (PPP)

NEW DELHI: Government today sought to allay apprehensions on the Land Acquisition ordinance saying even farmers whose land was acquired for critical projects like atomic energy, petroleum and highways will also get compensation. "By bringing this ordinance, we have done something which would benefit all the farmers," Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told reporters. Observing that "more than half of the farmers were not to get benefit" in the earlier Land Acquisition Act, he said the Government included those 13 legislations (introduced by former Minister Jairam Ramesh)

NEW DELHI: Ahead of his protest against the land ordinance here, social activist Anna Hazare today hinted at a bigger agitation at the Ramlila ground if the Narendra Modi government does not heed to his demands on the issue. Immediately after his arrival here, Hazare said the two-day protest will be followed by a three to four month long 'padyatra' across the country to make people aware of the "anti-farmer" provisions made by the Centre in the ordinance. "If the government doesn't take the ordinance back, then the people will also continue with their agitation.

CHANDIGARH: Congress will hold a protest here tomorrow against the ordinance brought by the BJP-led Centre making changes in the land acquisition act. "The protest will focus on the anti-farmer amendments in the Land Acquisition Act made by the Narendra Modi government," Pardeep Chhabra, the president of Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee, said noting that even social activist Anna Hazare had decided to hold a protest against these...

NEW DELHI: Government today made a vigorous bid to seek Opposition's cooperation as it faces a torrid Budget session of Parliament starting tomorrow but rival parties appeared to be in mood to relent on some thorny issues like the controversial Land Ordinance. At a meeting of political parties, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for cooperation for the benefit of common man while Parliamentary Affairs Minister M Venkaiah Naidu said the government is willing to walk the "extra mile" to accommodate opposition's cocnerns.

GREATER NOIDA: Former Union minister Jairam Ramesh today attacked the Narendra Modi government over the land ordinance, saying the " Company Sarkar " has knocked out the basic principles of the original land acquisition law to bring 'acchhey din' for corporates. Taking a dig at BJP , he said,"Adani has replaced Advani and Bajpai was replaced by Ambani. " Jairam said that under the original law, farmer's consent was mandatory but without any debate the government passed the ordinance and "handed over the power to bureaucracy".

NEW DELHI: Government is set to face tough times during the Budget session of Parliament starting tomorrow even as it promised to walk the "extra mile" to accommodate opposition's concerns and Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed for cooperation for the benefit of common man. Modi underlined at a meeting of all parties here that smooth functioning of Parliament should be ensured as the Budget session is very crucial and people look at it with...

NEW DELHI: The government is unlikely to make any change in the controversial land ordinance while bringing a bill to replace it with an Act of Parliament during the Budget session, despite widespread protests by opposition parties and farmers' groups. The draft of the new land bill to replace the December 29 ordinance contains all the changes brought in the Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Act, introduced by the erstwhile Congress-led UPA government in 2013.

GURGAON: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today launched 'Jai Kisan Abhiyan' from here over alleged "anti-farmer" approach by the BJP governments in the state and Centre and appealed the MPs to oppose the "anti-peasant" Land Acquisition ordinance, when it comes for discussion in the Parliament. In the first phase of the protest campaign, a large number of farmers and AAP volunteers took out a procession from Kamla Nehru Park, Gurgaon , to the residence of local BJP MP Rao Inderjit Singh, who is also a Union Minister.